Improvement in neck-yoke couplings



4"UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CHARLES EoKES,oE WEST SAND LAKE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-YOKE COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,012, dated September 17, 1878 g application filed April 12, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES EcKEs, of West Sand Lake, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certa-in new and useful Improvements in Couplings for Neck-Yokes, which improvements are fully described in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the coupling applied to a neck-yoke; Fig. 2, a cross-sectional view of the same, and Fig. 3 a sectional elevation.

Theobject of this invention is to furnish a coupling for neck-yokesl and whifietrees having a flexible joint, with a leather connection, which will readilyv connect with the pole when used with neck-yokes, and with the doubletree when used with whifdetrees, without liability of rattling,

In the drawings, A represents a neck-yoke to which this invention is applied. B B are thimbles nicely tting the said neck-yoke at the shoulders a of the central section A. Made with the said thimbles are the eyes C C, each thimble havinglits own eye. The said eyes are each pierced to receive a draw-bolt, D. E is a draft-link made with the draft-eye c, having an extension equal to the distance between shoulders c a, as shown in Fig. 3, and pierced with a hole corresponding in size with the draft-bolt D. The said draft-link is covered with leather F, which leather covering is wrapped around both theeye c and draftink E, and securely stitched around the edge, and provided, with a central opening7 G,or its equivalent, adapted to receive the end of the pole.

It will be readily seen that by this invention the neck-yoke is preserved stronger at its middle of length or portion Al than in neckyokes having'a central groove for receiving a strap; also that, by the joint produced by the eyes c and C C and draft-bolt D, the neckyoke may have a free movement without rattlin g, while the leather covering of the draftlink will not mar or scratch the plated tip of a pole.

It is apparent that this coupling may be used with advantage for coupling whifetrees' to the double-trees of coaches or pleasure-carriages, a slight modification of the form of the draft-link-bein g made to conform with the end of the double-tree employed.

Having described my invention, what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination, with thimbles B B, having eyes C C made solid with the same, rand the draft-bolt D, of the leather-covered drawlink E, provided with the draft-eye e, working between eyes C C and around said draft-bolt, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' CHARLES ECKES. Witnesses:

ALEX. SELKIRK, ADELBERT B. LAPPENS. 

